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Geologic Unit: Beemerville

Usage:

Beemerville Nepheline Syenite (NJ)
Beemerville Intrusive Suite (NJ*)


Geologic age:

Late Ordovician to early Silurian*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

2.8 km long and 0.4 km wide trending NE-trending intrusive complex, about 2.4 km NW of Beemerville, Sussex Co., north-central NJ (Justus, 1972).


AAPG geologic province:

Appalachian basin*


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).